Ball Park Music sound waves in Burnie

BALL Park Music first made waves in the music scene in 2011 with their debut album Happiness and Surrounding Suburbs.

Now the Brisbane-based, five- person band has just released its third album, Puddinghead, and will come to Burnie for the first time on tour this month.

Their infectious music will be heard on Friday, April 18, at the Butter Factory.

Drummer Dan Hanson plays in the band with his twin brother Dean, and said he was keen to be coming back to Tasmania.

"I'm super excited about it and I can speak for all the other guys in saying that they are as well. It's been nine months or so since our last tour of Australia and it just feels like it's been forever and on top of that it's been far far longer since we've been down to Tassie for our own shows," he said.

The band often plays in regional locations, something Hanson believes is critically important.

"I think that an engaged fan is an engaged fan regardless of geographical location and I think that generally a fan in Burnie is paying the same kind of money as a fan in Sydney, Brisbane or Albany in WA," he said.

"A fan invested in us is the thing that keeps us going, without that kind of support we wouldn't exist. It's about giving back and re- engaging with the fans which we are so grateful to have."

He said that while it might be a risk going regional and to unexpected places, it is something the band thrive on.

"There's a risk going anywhere, you never can be guaranteed in the beginning that people are going to turn up, but for me it's all about the people that are based there, they want to see more and more bands coming down and people will start travelling when word gets around," Hanson said.

"This tour we are going up to Darwin which we have never done before and it was the first show of the whole tour to sell out. People might think Darwin is not booming for touring music, but most people do get behind us. An enthusiastic crowd is what attracts us to the regional areas."

Hanson said the new album, released on April 4, was a recorded at a much more relaxed pace then their previous work.

"We did this one ourselves as opposed to working in a studio with a producer. We went to a studio space which was actually just an old house in Brisbane for around nine or 10 months and worked on the record pretty much every day we had spare in that time," he said.

"It afforded us the opportunity to spend a lot more time working on the recordings and using our time better then we could in the studio."

Fans can expect about five songs from each of the three albums at the shows and also a special surprise.